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If I were you:
Find a clean XP Pro torrent CD that will pass WGA. Burn that as a bootable ISO on your computer.
Remove her Hard Drive from the laptop.
Find a 2.5" IDE enclosure, put the laptop inside, and attach it to the USB port of your computer.
Pull of any necessary files if you can find them and burn them to DVD
Format the drive.
Reinstall the HDD, and then insert the burned XP ISO CD and install a new version of Windows.
Install any necessary secondary programs that she wants, and you're off and running.
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"When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln
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